The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: June 5
The Border Chronicle hangs out with legendary journalist Amy Goodman, plus big tech and the "everywhere border" and a podcast about Latin American art and the borderlands and more!
Todd travels to New Mexico's "National Defense Area" and speaks with residents, and Pablo in South Texas writes about the recently designated "endangered" Rio Grande, which is the true border crisis.
All the militarization and its propaganda hide a real border security issue: the struggle people face in making ends meet.
Todd visits Colombus, New Mexico, at the center of a new national defense area. Residents say they are saturated with border enforcement, and would prefer an investment in their community instead.
New “National Defense Areas” in Texas and New Mexico are escalating a diplomatic crisis with Mexico, creating legal turmoil in U.S. courts, and even leading to deaths among active-duty troops
A video Q&A with border business expert, Jerry Pacheco, on Trump's tariffs, the high cost of border militarization in Eagle Pass, and Melissa and Todd discuss Trump's first 100 days in the podcast.
In a lively conversation, The Border Chronicle founders grapple with the last three months of militarization and surveillance, and ponder what’s to come.
Eagle Pass resident, Garcia Grewal, talks about the reopening of Shelby Park and the impacts of Texas' new military base. And the creation of her new border-wide organization, Frontera Federation.
The Trump administration is turning vast stretches of federal land into militarized “National Defense Areas.” Soldiers in these areas might soon begin undertaking civilian law enforcement duties.
In Tuesday briefing, White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, says at least 90 miles of Texas border to be included under last Friday's executive order.
Trump issues executive order directing military to take over the Roosevelt Reservation. Tribal land is excluded from the order.
DHS secretary Kristi Noem explaining what's to come in an address to border industry representatives: “We can go in, take you out of your home, and deport you out of this country.”
The Trump administration is exporting its draconian approach to border enforcement to Mexico through aggressive political pressure and drastic reductions in NGO funding.
Independent news, culture and context from the U.S.-Mexico border.